Last week it emerged that Asian hackers were obtaining items inside different online games and selling them for real money to other gamers by hacking the game’s server. They sold all of these items through an online black market that they had created. There were seven people involved, five of them Chinese and two Malaysian.
Furthermore, these hackers were planning to attack video game companies in the US, France, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. Currently, they have attacked around nine video game companies although now the Malaysian hackers have been arrested and the Chinese ones remain as fugitives.
The American Department of Justice has charged the seven hackers for hacking more than one hundred gaming companies all around the world and selling in-game items for their own profit. The US government said that they wanted Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Verizon to investigate and cut down attacks on the gaming industry. This also led to Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen’s theory which stated that the Chinese government was allowing those attacks. He said: "Regrettably, the Chinese Communist Party has chosen a different path of making China safe for cybercriminals so long as they attack computers outside China and steal intellectual property helpful to China." The American Department of Justice is trying to use every method possible to stop those cyberattacks.
Andrea
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